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Bug 254763

Summary: Box-select cursor bug: typed text reversed from intuitive behaviour
Product: editor Reporter: ProjectOrc
Component: Painting & PrintingAssignee: Miloslav Metelka <mmetelka>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 8.0.2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:

Description ProjectOrc 2015-08-27 05:25:52 UTC 
Using Control+Shift+R to create a tall and zero-character-width text cursor causes subsequent typing to appear in "reverse".

Starting text:

	example
	text
	et cetera

Press Control+Shift+R and then drag the mouse to select the beginning of the first three lines such that the box-cursor is 0 characters wide (the | below represents the cursor):

	|example
	|text
	|et cetera

Type 1 and then 2.

Expected final text:

	12example
	12text
	12et cetera

Actual final text:

	21example
	21text
	21et cetera

I see why this is happening but I view this as counterintuitive.
This is the opposite of the behaviour of Notepad++